If your girlfriend and mother fall in the water at the same time, who are you legally obligated to save first? The correct answer is: save your mother! Ever wanted to test yourself on the Chinese legal system? The Ministry of Justice recently published the answers to its National Judicial Examination questions online.
This year’s 52nd National Judicial Examination included a variation of the (apparently classic) mother vs. girlfriend question. This year, the question was: who would you save first in a fire?
In the following multiple choice question, test takers were asked which of the following examples were correct:
1) A child drowns in a public swimming pool. The child’s parents (A), and the lifeguards (B) both deliberately did not rescue him. (A) and (B) are both equally guilty of criminal negligence.
2) In the midst of divorce proceedings, a husband believes that he is not obligated to rescue his drowning wife. When his wife drowns, he is guilty of criminal negligence.
3) A man rescues his girlfriend in a fire, but fails to rescue his mother, even though he is able to. He did not actively commit a crime, but failing to rescue his mother is criminal negligence.
4) (A) hands poisoned coffee to (B). (B) takes a few sips of the coffee and hands it to (C). (A) does not stop (C) from drinking the coffee, for fear of their crime being brought to life. As a result (B) and (C) both die. (A) is guilty of both murdering (B) and killing (C) through criminal negligence.
Answers: A, C, and D are correct. State law mandates that you always save your mother!
Associate criminal law professor at Beijing Normal University and deputy director of the Institute of Chinese Criminal Law, Peng Xinlin said that the mother vs. girlfriend question is legal as well as moral. If a man saves his mother first, and his girlfriend dies, then this is not a crime. However, if he saves his girlfriend first, and then saves his mother, this also is not a crime.
Source: inews.qq.com
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Keywords: China criminal negligence China criminal law China National Judicial Exam
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if anyone wants a source to back up their opinion that China is seriously mickey mouse, then the publication of this National Judicial Examination will be sufficient enough to win any argument for.
Oct 09, 2015 08:49 Report Abuse
I doubt any legal tests in other countries read like this.
Oct 04, 2015 14:31 Report Abuse
Laws in other countries are mostly based on common sense and logic. (I said mostly not totally)
Oct 06, 2015 16:06 Report Abuse
It's always a man expected to risk his life to rescue one of two women, but never a woman asked which man she'd risk her life to save. It's reminiscent of when boyfriends were expected to cover their girlfriends' bodies with their own in the Colorado theater shooting. Nice to know whose lives are the ones that matter.
Oct 03, 2015 07:36 Report Abuse
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